Mailing-wrapper.



H. J. WYATT. MAILING WRAPPER.

APPLIOATION nun MAY 6, 1911.

Patented June 25, 1912.

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- John Doe.

H. J. WYATT. MAILING WRAPPER. APPLIGATION FILED MAY6, 1911.

Patented Jun 25, 1912.

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% I afforzvez/ ITED STAT AT N F CE- on NEW, YoRK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR To THE WYATT COMPANY, or NEW.

YORK, N. Y., A ooRroRATioNoE NEW YORK..

HENRY J. WYA

MAILING-WRAPPE R.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1,912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY J. WYATT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mailing- Wrappers, of which the following is a clear, full, and eXact description.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved mailing tube for mailing drawings, papers, reports, etc., to prevent their crushing in the mails, to prevent their sliding out endwise, of the roll, to render the same openable without liability of damage to the contents, to cheapen the cost of the,

same, to reduce the storage space occupied by mailing tubes, and to cause the papers thus inclosed to aid in maintaining a noncrushing stability to the Whole during its transit in the mail; and also to render the inclosing of papers of various shapes and sizes easier while at the same time providing a device which may be addressed in the ordinary typewriting machine.

In carrying out my invention I provide a sheet of paper, one end preferably turned in for some little distance, and to the turned in portion I secure a stringof considerably greater length than the width of the wrap per at some distance from the foldedend, so that part of the superposed surfaces that may be folded and rolled at the beginning of rolling a document'will be on the outside of said string, even before the completion of the roll. The wrapper is longer than the document to be inclosed, as to its main sheet portion, and is preferably provided with what are known as tension fasteners on its outside, preferably one near each end of the roll near its outer edge, while a business card and an address blank may be printed on the outside end of the wrapper.

Before placing papers Within the wrapper the same may be passed through a typewriting machine, and an address or other matter may be written on the mailing card portion of the papers, and then inclosed within the flap, and the entire matter rolled from the turned over end on as small a radius as the material to be mailed will permit, the outer end of the wrapper and the intermediate portion of the wrapper as Well as the papers inclosed being superposed a number of times upon each other in the operation. The strength of the tube Application filed May 6, 1911 Serial No. 625,513.

thus formed will depend not only upon the material to be mailed, but upon the length and material of thewrapper. For extreme protection the wrapper may be made of" sufficient length to roll over the entire package a number of convolutions, and it maybe made of various thicknesses of paper, or

straw board according to the exigencies of the case.

roll a string is provided hanging out of /Vhen rolled into the complete the edge of the roll, and inwardly passed around a tension fastener or other type of fastener as may be provided, and then passed once around the roll and again secured to the fastener, and when mailing first class matter the strings may be passed around the tube several times, tied and sealed with wax. In most cases the fasteners shown will be found sufficient for the use in question.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is an open plan view of my improved wrapper with an inclosure. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a view of the wrapper rolled but not secured. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3 showing the first step in securing the wrapper. Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4:, showing the wrapper ready for mailing. Fig. '6 is an enlarged end perspective view of the rolled wrapper.

As shown in the drawings, the wrapper blank 1 is provided with an inturned flap 2 at one end preferably provided with scorings 3 to aid in the preliminary rolling of the wrapper. A string 4 of greater length than the width of the wrapper is passed through holes 5--5 in the flap and secured by a fastener 6 centrally of the flap. Theother end of the wrapper is provided with a space 7 for the address while adjacent thereto at 8 I again score the wrapper as an aid in causing it to keep its shape when rolled. Near each side at the free end of the wrapper I secure paper disks 9 by a rivet eyelet 10 known in the trade as a tension fastener.

The papers to be wrapped are placed in the angle between the parts 1 and 2 and the same rolled from that end to cause the inclosures and wrapper to become superposed on one another as shown in Fig. 6. The cord 4 passing through the roll when brought around the edge thereof securely holds all detached inclosures from coming out at the ends and also serves as it is passed around a fastener and then around the roll to hold the same firmly secured in its rolled condition.

I claim as my invention:

A mailing wrapper comprising an elongated sheet, friction disks secured to the underside of the sheet near one end and ad jacent to the opposite edges thereof, a flap carried on the opposite end of-the sheet and being adapted to be turned over upon the upper side of the sheet, said flap being provided with openings near its opposite edges, a cord engaging across the upper side of the flap and having its ends passing down through the openings and out between and beyond the edges of the flap and the sheet, a fastener carried upon the flap between the openings and engaging the cord to hold the latter to the flap, said sheet being adapted to receive sheets of material to be mailed upon its upper face, the flap being adapted to receive therebeneath the ends of the sheets of material to be mailed, said elongated sheet being adapted to be rolled upon itself and upon the sheets of material to be mailed, said ends of the cord being adapted to be drawn about the edges of the sheets when rolled and passed beneath the friction disks, the ends of the cords being further adapted to be passed entirely around the opposite ends of the rolled sheets back to the disks and to be secured thereto whereby the entire mailing wrapper is held in rolled position.

Signed at New York city, in the county and State of New York this 5 day of May in the year one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

HENRY J. WYATT.

, Witnesses:

DAVID G. WAKEMAN, HARRY M. KAMM.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

